Woven elastic binding strip



June 10, 1941- H. J. NORDSETH WOVEN ELAST IC BINDING STRIP Filed Nov. 10, 1939 2 Sheets-Sheet l June 10, 1941.

H. J. NORDSETH WOVEN ELASTIC BINDING STRIP iled Nov. 10, 1959 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 r I I ATTORNEV of binding em Patented June 10, 1941 UNITED. STATES PAT NT ,orrlca Halfdan J. Nordseth, San Calli'., \as-' signor to United Elastic Corporation, Ealt- I hampton, Mass, aeorporation of will! setts Application November 16. it. s mina soam 0 10mm. (or its-s84 I This invention relates to the anufacture or e,

garments and vother goods from fabrics, and is especially concerned with the materials used in.

making the seams by means of which the parts of such articles'are secured'together.

. In stitching together the sectionsof'a garment,

especiallyif it includes elastic fabric. it is neces sary to run in four lines of stitches to each seam .in order to produce a really secure union which will present a satisfactory appearance:-= This in- ;vention aims to improve, the construction of seams and the materials of which they are made. with a view to reducing the work involved and also producing a moresatisfactory construction. An especially important feature of the invention resides in a novel binding material designed for 7 use as an element of a seam.

The nature of the invention will derstood from the following description when pointed out in the appended claim.

' In the drawings,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a short-length tion;

, 1igs.'2 and 3 are plan and edge views",[reispec tively, of a slightly different form. of binding material, also constructed in accordance with the showing the v invention: Figs. 4 and 5 are perspective views be readily tinying a; feature of this .invenv desired. rubber filling threads may also be in-- cluded, either with or without rubber warps, in orderto give the strip a lateral elasticity. Such a productmay conveniently be made in a doubleshuttlenarrow wear loom, the two shuttles laying in the filling threads inthe two plies or layers, while the harnesses are operated to form suitable sheds for p'roducng; thetwo plies or. layers, at' i the lame time manipulating- .the binderwarp's: to unitethe two plies of the. central .Isectionl tot-each other.

' .5 In the-particular; form in Figs. 1 and 8, the flanges and layers or plies are of the same length, but for some purposes it "it preferable to make one layer. considerably nar- I- rower than the other, and such a binding strip is manner in which sections of a garment, or the J.

like, may be united with the aid of binding strips such as those shownin Figs. 1, 2 and 3: ,7 Fig. 6 is a sectional view through the stri shown in Fig. 1 on a large scale; and

Figs. 7, 8, 9 and lOare perspectiveviews showing typical ways m; which the binding strips provided by this invention may be used in different garments- 1 -Referring first to Figs. 1 and 6, the binding from each other while their central portions are interwoven by means of binder warps into an integral structure and, consequently. unite the marginal flanges or lips permanently together.

In the drawings the intermediate portion of the m i s qiiiu tr ted ini'fig's. 2 and a; In this strip the intermediate section I is extremely narrow, the two plies being united 'by-only, a very few binder we typicalmethodof using" the binding A shown Fig-1 is iiiiiStratedlnFig. 4.' Since the two 1 ire of flanges projecting from the opposite edge 'jfor ex'ampla parts of a: garment; may be inserted. The flangesf'associated with the respective sections are then securedto them by lines,

of stitches, the nature. of which is determined by the character ofthe work. For example. if

the ooassreomubmnuauy non-elastic matef rial, then. plain stitching'may be used, such as as.

thatshown at cin Fig. 4. 'On theothe: hand, if

' the goods are of stretchable or elastic material there shown comprises upper and lower plies or w layers, the marginal portions of which are free I so that it is desired to take advantage of the elasticity of the binding. then a staggered stitch seam. such as that shown at din Fig. 4, is prefer. able. Ineither event. the raw edgesof the fabric areuefi'ectively concealed by the binding mat'e- Two sewing operations only need be per- I formed, both linesof stitches c being run in at one operationin adouble-needle machine, and

the staggered stitching if being produced at another operation. The goods thus are firmly anchored to the binding, and a neat and attractive seam is produced.

poses to include rubber warps, such as those. shown at I, in its construction so that it will In using the binding b, Figs. 2, 3 and 5, essentially the same procedure may be followed. Here the staggered stitched seams e and I may be employed not only to secure the two sections of fabric II and if to each other, but also to bind the outer or selvage edges of the have a high degree of longitudinal elasticity. If 55 flanges I and 6' in place. The middle stag.

ofbinding strip shown or. the central portion I of. the stripli parallel each other andai'efree from each other.'they provide sl'ots between" them into whichlfthe ad ,Jacent edges or sections of fabric! and I 10mins.

gered stitch seam y secures the inner edges of the fabric websglll and I! to the flanges 3' and 4' and may either be made to straddle the entire 'width of this narrow ply or to approximately do so, as shown in Fig. 5.

In either event the fabric strip' III is secured between the 'flanges 4' and 8' by the seams e and 9 and the other section II of fabric similarly anchored in the same manner by the lines of stitches f and g. This arrangement is particularly useful when the parts I and i2 consist of elastic rab-- being suflicient to provide the desired degree-of rics. g t

Fig. 7 shows the binding 'a forming part of a. seam by means of which sections of knitted, and therefore stretchable and mewhat elastic materials, formin portions" or a pair of bathing" trunks, are secured together. Asomewhat similar use for this material is shown in Fig. 10'where it connects the waist and pants of an article oi underwear. I Fig. 8 shows these bindings connecting a nonelastic section I! of a, corset with elastic sections "and".

In Fig. 9 a binding strip A connects the waist I and skirt portions of a dress. While the fabrics of which these parts or the garment are'made may be non elastic; they are gathered, as indicated, and secured together through the medium ofthe binding by astitched seam, the details of which are not shown, but which makes the-elasticity of the binding available in accommodating tion at this portion of the'garment.

These are merely. illustrative of the many uses] which may be made of thenovel binding provided by this invention. It shouldbe understood, I

however. that ,in stitching the binding to elastic or gathered goods, the stitching is performed 1 with both the goods and the elastic binding strip" stretched and elongated so that the subsequent; I contraction of the goods will restore-them to normal dimensions, the degreeof initial elongation stretch during theuseoi the garment. i Having thus described'my invention, what I desire toclaim as-new is: An, elastic binding strip for joining two fabrics, L together in'edg e to edge relationship, comprising a relatively narrow strip of woven. fabric co prising two layersof fabric positioned one'abov the other, portions of said layers spaced, from the I selvage edges of said layers being interwoven! with each other into an integral structure lea-v ingthe tour selvage portions of' the layers free and projecting from opposite edges of. saidQcen tral interwoven portion, all four of saidgfree,

margins being woven selvage edges andthe stripp including elastic threads in the weave" thereof running parallel to said edges and imparting a. j 

